The BIG Book Club Resource Guide

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Do you run a book club at your library? Are you ready to take your library’s book club to the next level? Great! We’ve got a TON of resources to help.

If you would like to receive more specific recommendations, want an author to visit your book club, or have any questions about our books, please email us at library@macmillanusa.com.


Featured Book Club Picks!

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Amy Chua’s debut novel is a sweeping, evocative, and compelling historical thriller that paints a vibrant portrait of a California buffeted by the turbulent crosswinds of a world at war and a society about to undergo massive change.

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A lush and atmospheric novel about three generations of a Costa Rican family wrestling with a deadly secret, from rising literary star John Manuel Arias.

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Join New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner as she unravels three generations of women tied together by blood, love, and family secrets in this searing novel.

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Bernadette, Eleanor Oliphant, Rosie, Ove . . . meet AMAZING GRACE ADAMS, the funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink-who finally pushes back.

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Coming February 2024!

From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of THE NIGHTINGALE and THE FOUR WINDS, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. THE WOMEN is that rarest of novels—at once an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics, of a generation both fueled by dreams and lost on the battlefield.


Book Club News!

Reese’s Book Club picked Alix E. Harrow’s STARLING HOUSE to be her October 2023 Book Club pick! Click here to view to learn more!

The Today show’s September 2023 #ReadWithJenna pick is Fran Littlewood’s AMAZING GRACE ADAMS. Check out more know more!

Reese’s Book Club picked Crystal Smith Paul’s DID YOU HEAR ABOUT KITTY KARR? to be her May 2023 Book Club pick! Click know more for a reading group guide and to learn more!

Reese’s Book Club picked Kristin Hannah’s THE NIGHTINGALE to be her March 2023 Book Club pick! Click here to view for a reading group guide and to learn more!

The Today show’s February 2023 #ReadWithJenna pick is Jessica George’s debut novel, MAAME. Find out more about programming know more, and check out an excerpt of the book to see if it’s right for your next book club discussion!

Kirkus Reviews named Alice McDermott’s ABSOLUTION a top 20 book club pick! Read more know more.

LISTEN FOR THE LIE by Amy Tintera is Good Morning America’s March 2024 book club pick! Read more here.

ANITA DE MONTE LAUGHS LAST by Xochitl Gonzalez is the March 2024 pick for Reese’s Book Club! Read more here.

BEAUTYLAND by Marie-Helene Bertino is Dakota Johnson’s first book club pick! Read more here.


We’ve gathered some of our top Book Club Discussion guides from all genres for you.

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Do you run a One Book, One City/Community Wide Reads program? Check out these recommendations that have great book club potential as well!

Click here for recommendations, or view the current Edelweiss catalog here.

For more information on One City One Book recommendations, please email us at emily.day@macmillan.com.


Don’t just listen to us…

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